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Raising power, status and quality of life of Vietnamese women
Raising power, status and quality of life of Vietnamese women
20/10/15
For 20 years, Vietnam has been trying to raise
power, quality of life and status of Vietnamese women.
Impressive figures
For 20 years, Vietnam has been implementing the Beijing
Platform, which was adopted at the 4th international conference of
women in Beijing
in 1995, with the effort of the society and the responsible of the entire
political system. Vietnam
is recognized by the UN on attaining some of the Millennium Development Goal
targets including gender equality and empowering women.
Vietnam now has females who have high-ranking position on the
political arena such as two Politburo members, one Party central secretary, two
National Assembly vices, one Deputy President.
Females also account for
nearly 9% of the senior Party members of the 11th tenure, 11.3%
provinces’ Party Committee for 2015-2020 tenure,
24.4% delegates of 12th National Assembly.
There are 50% of the
ministerial offices that have female officers are senior leaders and 24/63 (38%)
provinces and cities that have female Presidents or Deputy Presidents of the
People Committee.
In the economic field,
the rate of joining labor force of Vietnamese women is 73.5%, while men’s one
is 82.5%. This rate is very high in comparison with a lot of countries.
Vietnamese women also account for 25% the owners of the companies. The wage gap
between the women and men is reducing at the rate of 106.7% in 2014.
In the medical field, the
average life expectancy of Vietnamese women is quite high at 73.2. The
reproductive health of mothers is cared much. In 2014, 95.8% of the maternal
mothers are checked at least one time and 73.7% of the maternal mothers are
checked at least 4 times. The maternal mortality rate is also reducing.
In education and training
field, the rate of literacy of women at the ages of 15-35 is 98.9%. The female
intellectual force is getting bigger in number, higher in quality and younger
in age. In universities, 19% of the Doctors and 38% of the Masters are women.
In science and technology field, 38.6% of the Deputy Professors, 30.9% of the
Doctors and 54.6% the Masters are women.
These figures has shown
the great achievement in gender equality, raising role, status and quality of
life of Vietnamese women which Vietnam has been trying for last 20 years.
Difficulties
The Beijing Declaration
and Platform is the result of the fights of the women all over the world for
decades to attain the gender equality. The important document, which was
adopted at the 4th international conference of women in Beijing in 1995 with the
attendance of delegates from over 180 countries, was to reflect the issues and
concerns of the women at the late 20th century.
Vice President Nguyen Thi
Doan said that “The Beijing Platform has been widely implemented in Vietnam for 20
years and considered an important factor to make improvement in the gender
equality process. However in the implementation of the Beijing Platform there
are still difficulties that need to be rightly assessed to change in the
future.”
Despite the important
achievements, the effort in making the gender equality of the Vietnamese women
has been a lot of difficulties. Vietnam
has a low starting point of an agricultural country, having outdated ways of
thinking such as preferring sons more than girls. In remote areas, women are
bound by outdated customs and practices; the proportions of poverty and
illiteracy in women are still high; the problems of domestic violence, women
and children trafficking, marrying foreign men are very complicated…
To effectively deal with
this problem and implement the gender equality, promoting the human rights in
the work of building and protecting the nation, our Party and State are
conducting policies with the participation of the entire community. In which we
are focusing on strengthening and diversifying the forms of propaganda and
education to raise awareness of gender and gender equality./.
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All comments [ 7 ]
The Vietnamese people have increasingly joined in all areas and hold many important positions in the society
the women have made significant contribution to the building and developing of the country
the role of women in the family as well as in the society should be recognized and respected.
for many years, the State of Vietnam has implemented many proper policies aimed at raising power, quality of life and status of Vietnamese women.
unlike in many other countries over the world, in Vietnam the situation of discrimination against women is little
that's so right, the discrimination agianst the women mainly arises in the rural and mountainous areas where the people have low knowlege and understanding
the UN recognized the efforts of Vietnam when the country has attained some of the Millennium Development Goal targets including gender equality and empowering women.
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